Here I am listing few cool facts ... You never know it may fetch u million $s in any quizzing game :)
1 MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.**
2. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.**
3. BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.**
4. FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).**
5. DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped..**
6. NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..**
7. AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.**
8. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.**
9. QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest.**
10. TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on
which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom of Tips.**
11. JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was
changed into JEEP later.**
12. Coca-Cola was originally green.**
13. The most common name in the world is Mohammed..**
14. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.**
15. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.**
16. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.**
17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!** (ank mari!)
18. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.**
19. It is impossible to lick your elbow.**
20.. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.**
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